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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1957)
Seven Air Force Ball Sweetheart Finalists Named ST Mary Masshtggale Clare Anne Smith Geraldine Whitmore Linda Plemons Sandra Zunker Judy Boone Pricilla Hollis 18,440 READERS THE BATTALION Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus SENATE MEETS TONIGHT Number 45: Volume 57 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1957 Price Five Cents TCU Billed $837 for Lost Articles ’Watchers Alert, HopeToSeeSputn ik A&M’s Operation Moonwatch team is once more standing .by bn a constant alert hoping that the weather will clear i so that the 21 man team can successfully spot Sputnik TI, airborne satellite that will be the coffin of Laika, the Russian flying dog. Jack Kent,, director of the local team, said that his crew will man their telescopes tomorrow morning before dawn, trying to get a glimpse of a satellite. Sputnik IT, larger than the first, will be huiidreds of feet higher and remain in range of the telescopes for a longer time than the esti mated four minutes Sputnik T teased the eye with. The purpose of moonwatch ob servations is obtaining the exact location and time the satellite passes overhead. The data will be sent to Harvai'd University where the object’s orbit will be calibrated. Besides being larger and carrying Laika, Sputnik IT gives a different type of signal, a hissing that has a super-imposed beat, Kent said. The 13 telescopes that the team Weather Today Local showers today, clearing to night, 1 is the forecast for the Col lege Station area. The weak cold front moving eastward over Texas is preceded by rainy weather and followed by clearing. The maximum and minimum tem peratures taken during the 24-hour period ending at 8 this morning were 67 degrees at 8 today and 52 degrees at 8 a. m. Wedimsday. The relative humidity at 8 this morning was 100 per cent. Only .04 inch of rainfall was recorded. uses for observation are ones they made themselves in the A&M phy sics laboratory. Each has a 12 de gree field and together cover 120 degrees of the sky. Kent said there is room for two more teams in his unit. The job requires no special training, only patience and a desire to do a good job. People interested in joining the organization are asked to see Kent in his office at. the Academic Building and leave their name, ad dress, telephone number and the amount of time the student has left in A&M. Tuesday Deadline Set for Rice Ducats Aggies planning to attend the A&M-Rice game Nov. 16 should buy their student and date tick ets before noon Tuesday, Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com mandant, said yesterday. Col. Wilkins stressed the im portance of buying tickets be fore then because officials must know how’ many seats to reserve in the Aggie section. The game will be a sellout and unsold tick ets can be sold as general ad mission. Air Force Knocks All Saucer Reports DAYTQN, Ohio —(A*)— The Air Force tonight pulled the rug out from under the so-called flying saucers. A top official of the Air Tech nical Intelligence Center at nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said the service has found no evi dence of flying saucers in the last 10 years. The official, who declined to be identified, told the Dayton Jour nal Herald that the Air Force in vestigated 5,700 reported sightings of flying soucers between 1947-57. Soviet Missile Seen All Across Nation By WILMOT HERCHER WASHINGTON CP) — Sputnik II was sighted all across the coun try yesterday, giving scientists the information needed for an accurate fix of its orbit around the earth. The Soviet satellite appeared to be tumbling end over end in its furious flight at nearly 18,000 miles an hour. This caused re newed speculation about the fate of Laika, the little Russian dog harnessed inside. Generals Here Friday TCU Opinion Is Ags Wanted Fight Final totals of articles destroyed or stolen from Aggies at the Fort Worth Corps trip amounted to $837, A complete list of articles lost by A&M students was sent to Texas Christian University Dean of Students Laurence Smith by Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, asst, com mandant. Both Smith and Student Con gress President George Depee is sued a plea for the return of any articles belonging to Aggies, em phasizing that students doing so would not be punished. Dean Smith, Depee and Bob Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor Gen Maxwell D. Taylor, chief of staff of the U. S. Army, will head a group of military dignitaries visiting here this weekend for the third annual Fall Military Day. The Ross Volunteers will pro vide an honor guard for the guests who are expected here tomori’ow afternoon. At 1:30- p. m. Saturday the en tire Corps of Cadets-4,000 strong- will march in review on the main drill field with Gen. Taylor taking the salute. Saturday at 5:30 p. m. Col. and Mrs. Joe E. Davis will honor Gen. Taylor with a buffet supper in the MSC Birch Room. Gen. Taylor will again review the Corps that night as they march into Kyle Field for the A&M-SMU football game. He will be in the stands later as an honor guest. Accompaning Gen. Taylor in the festivities will be Maj. Gen. Guy S. Meloy, fourth U. S. Army deputy commanding general for reserves; Maj. Gen. Robert G. Gard, USA, chief, U. S. Military District, Tex as; and Maj. Gen. T. C. Rogers, commandant of the nation’s Air Force program. Maj. Gen. Guy S. Meloy ■‘TAll Maj. Gen Robert G. Gard SMB Weekend Features Two Dances, Five Bands Two dances scheduled this week end feature five, count ’em, five bands. That’s an average of two and a half bands a dance, but the traditional extravaganza, Midnight in New Orleans is going to grab four of them after the game. Midnight in New Orleans, with the atmosphere of old New Or leans, will spread throughout the Memorial Student Center. Dave Woodard and his Combo, the regular Rue Pinalle group will play their brand of music in the games area; Richard Smith, with dance music of rock and roll ten dencies, will hold court on the sec ond floor; Joe Mendes, with Latin HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6 — CP)— Walda Winchell, 29, daughter of columnist Walter Winchell, gave birth to a daughter today, four weeks pi'ematurely. music to please, will occupy the Serpentine Lounge; and Chet At kins and his Jazz Band will add Canine Pilot Ali ve, Says Soviet Paper MOSCOW,—(CP)—Tass, the Sov iet news agency, has said that Laika, the dog in Sputnik II, was in satisfactory condition after her four-day whirl around the earth. The earth satellite was to com plete its 54th revolution at 10 p.m. at which time Sputnik I will have completed 500 circuits, and its x’ocket carrier 520. Tass said that on the basis of three days of reports from the second satellite it had been possible to ascertain its orbit more exactly and to estimate that it would last much longer than the first satel lite. to the down beat on the second floor. Starting immediately after the game, the dance will end at mid night. Admission is $2 per couple. Tickets will be on sale at a ticket booth and the MSC Directorate’s office. Rue Pinalle is a street in France that is known for night clubs and special kind of music. The MSC will again duplicate one of the clubs in the pre-game dance Friday night in the games area of the MSC. Dancing music will be furnished by the Dave Woodard Combo start ing at 8:30 *and lasting ’till yell practice. The floor show will start at 9:45 and will feature Maria Kruttschmitt, SMU ballad singer, and Jude Jones, ballet dancer from Waco. The price of ducats is $1.50 per couple. Roch, TCU Congress vice-president will investigate the claim for re imbursement before payment is made. Included in the list were: 1 pair of senior boots $80.00 1 serge uniform 45.00 1 khaki uniform 9.00 1 sport coat 40.00 2 pair dress pants 24.00 1 plastic clothes bag 2.00 1 hub cap fl.OO 1 damaged radio aerial 3.00 1 sprung car door 5.00 1 hs senior ring 25.00 2 uniforms 20.00 1 sport shirt 0.00 1 pair trousers 5.00 1 shaving kit 8.00 1 electric razor 30.00 1 pair army shoes 10.00 1 tie, socks, shoe brush 2.00 medical bill 15.00 1 serge uniform , 35.00 1 serge cap 1.50 senior ring 28.75 wrist watch 95.00 1 field jacket, pair of trousers, and 1 shirt 3 0.00 1 serge cap 1.50 watch 50.00 broken tooth 68.00 broken nose . 30.00 damaged boots 5.00 boot pants 17.00 watch 115.00 1 saber 26.00 1 cap . 1.50 1 set of rank ^ 1.00 1 pair of gloves, belt and buckle 2.75 radio aerial broken off 6.00 army shoes 10.00 Total $837.00 Depee, in a statment to TCU’s newspaper, said, “The delegation that apologized to the A&M Stu dent Senate last week was well received at College Station, But he added: “I had the feeling that some of the students were resentful of the whole affair and regretful that they didn’t get to fight back more.” Keese Named Dead Of Traffic Group Charles J. Keese, associate pro fessor in the Civil Engineering De partment, will serve as chairman of a traffic engineering conference on traffic signals, November 20-21, in the Memorial Student Center. Maj. Gen. T. C. Rogers